MEN with strong upper body strength are more likely to vote conservatively while physically weaker males have a greater tendency towards left-leaning views.
And stronger men are more likely to protect their resources while weaker males favor more socialist views such as wealth distribution, researchers claim.
Psychological scientists Michael Bang Petersen of DenmarkÂ’s Aarhus University, and Daniel Sznycer of the University of California, say political motivations may have evolutionary links to physical strength.
The scientists say men's upper body strength predicts and influences their political opinions and this link reflects psychological traits that evolved in response to our early ancestral environments and continue to influence behaviour today.
"While many think of politics as a modern phenomenon, it has - in a sense - always been with our species," they say. |